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How the Right’s Lame Attack on Occupy Wall St. Shows the Poverty of the Conservative Ideology

The movement – with its defining message of standing with the 99 percent of Americans who don’t have lobbyists working for them – appears to have tapped into a deep vein of discontent among working people whose economic security has been savaged by decades of upward redistribution of the nation’s wealth.

The right, in keeping with its habitual knee-jerk defense of the privileged, has tried, with little success so far, to push back on that message. And its response offers us a microcosmic view of everything that’s wrong with conservative discourse these days.